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Advertisement Sponsor: engine16 construct-d right here, write now comments? discussions | active | buy ad Section Stories Browse all the newest headlines by section >> On the Internet, everyone knows you're John Lott by Eloquence MLP::Culture Fiction by spaceghoti MLP::Internet I Want to be Like Mike by enterfornone Op-Ed::Culture Government program suffers shocking deaths by subversion Op-Ed::Technology Think DVDs last forever? Say hello to DVD Rot by bee News::Movies The Poutine, She's Delicious by CheeseburgerBrown MLP::Food Does the Future Need Us? by michaelp MLP::Technology New Diaries Just a Poll This Afternoon by tps12 I need a book suggestion! by egg troll Call For A Kuro5hin Editor by pb How to say "fuck you" by yankeehack We're doomed. by Hired Goons !! ORWELLIAN NEWS FLASH !! by Noam Chompsky A Paragraph for the War-Mongers by medham Back on the dole by FlightTest It's over. by Hillman Like Whoa by Carnage4Life 2.7.03 by Mr Badger Slashdot, Rant(s), etcetera by wiredog Will George W Bush go down as one of the worst presidents ever? by Norman Von Brinkenhoff Stand back, please. by graal IN SOVIET RUSSIA by hulver

Fiction Lies! It's all lies! When the Galumphers wore shoes (Fiction) By Rogerborg Thu Jan 30th, 2003 at 07:18:48 AM EST   Settle down, my own dear ones, settle down and I will tell you a story about the Galumphers, and of the time when their Galumpher King decided that they could wear shoes. Full Story (54 comments, 1346 words in story) localroger's novel "The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect" (Fiction) By rusty Sun Jan 12th, 2003 at 10:23:13 PM EST During the recent discussion of creating a fiction section for K5, one of our all-time favorite authors, localroger, mentioned that he had written a 60 kiloword novel some time ago which had not yet seen the light of day. He was convinced to release it, and I offered space on our server for that purpose. Today I'm inordinately pleased to announce the release of Roger "localroger" Williams's novel The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect. Lawrence had ordained that Prime Intellect could not, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. But he had not realized how much harm his super-intelligent creation could perceive, or what kind of action might be necessary to prevent it. Caroline has been pulled from her deathbed into a brave new immortal Paradise where she can have anything she wants, except the sense that her life has meaning. Now these two souls are headed for a confrontation which will force them to weigh matters of life and death before a machine that can remake -- or destroy -- the entire Universe. Full Story (166 comments, 455 words in story) Fiction: Passages in the Void (Fiction) By localroger Sun Dec 22nd, 2002 at 02:30:12 PM EST This story is what happened when I read a review of the provocative book Rare Earth which stated that, if the authors are correct, it means "the end of science fiction." This story combines every worst-case assumption from the Rare Earth theory with a nearly total absence of new high-tech modalities. Even if we are alone in the Universe, trapped by the speed of light, and beset by catastrophe, there will be stories to tell. (More background is provided in a comment so as to avoid spoilage.) Full Story (103 comments, 6268 words in story) Electric Souls (Fiction) By ogre Mon Nov 18th, 2002 at 08:23:49 AM EST It seems reasonable to guess that eventually 1. People will be able to connect to computers through direct neural connections. 2. These neural connections will be used to present a detailed virtual reality as good as (or better than) the real thing. 3. This will become more and more popular over time, becoming the major form of computer interaction. In the following story I explore a potential consequence of this trend (and just because the story shows open source software killing babies, this doesn't mean the story was sponsered by Microsoft). Full Story (151 comments, 3681 words in story) Fiction: Megabits Among the Homeless (Fiction) By rusty Thu Oct 19th, 2000 at 01:08:02 PM EST Many of you probably saw this yesterday in MLP, but I loved it so much I asked the author, Zachary Booth Simpson, for permission to run it here in its entirely. In the "multimedia gulch" of San Francisco, Internet businesses have sprung to life thriving on a dense grid of fiber-optics, cheap capital, and smart high-tech workers. I recently toured one of the "server farms" located there, one of the data pumps that drive the net. I found a surreal world... Update [2000-10-21 12:1:24 by rusty]: Zack, the author, has pointed out to me that this story is fictional. I wasn't aware of that when I posted it. I don't think it makes any difference to the essential "truth" of it, though. You may disagree, and it does open up a whole new angle on the subject. Full Story (113 comments, 3552 words in story)

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